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Paul Bocuse, 51, maítre of maítres and owner of the great restaurant outside Lyon that bears his name: "Find out in the market what is good, fresh and in season. Then choose your recipe. The next most important thing is to have a good public, which in the home means people who are eager to eat. Use recipes as inspirations: never give up on one if you are lacking an ingredient...
...weird and poetic monsters on paper. Johns' interest is only in the folds: the hatchings repeat, mirror and reverse one another. It is only a formal device and, compared with what one has learned to expect from the earlier Johns, it is a weak raison d'étre...
...French government suffered too, since the spectacle of demonstrators and flics fighting in the rain flashed across the newspaper pages and television screens of Europe and the rest of the world. That was what many of the environmentalists had hoped for, a massive coup de théátre that would turn public opinion against the far-ranging French nuclear-energy program...
Among some, however, there is considerable optimism about the Carter era. Notes Paul Delisle, maître d' of what he hopes will continue to be Washington's most "in" restaurant, the Sans Souci: "Once we had the Texan. He learned to eat fine French food. The Georgian-he can learn too." In his thick French accent, Delisle jokingly offers an outrageously far-out claim to kinship with the President-elect: "I am from Marseille, so Mr. Carter and I are both Southerners...
...siblings and sexual suitors are summoned up, often in hilarious detail, though they are mostly kept frozen at the edge of caricature by Stephanie's satiric perceptions. The author is at home in emigré salons and ancient country holdings-where the landscaping is by Le Nôtre and the new power mower is by John Deere. When the ancestral crypt, where Stephanie's father lies, gets too crowded, the family simply shifts the bones of those who had made "bad marriages." The flavor of refugee New York in the '40s, classy but cashless, also comes...